Haddy Enoch has passed away
The founder and owner of Danish Cirkus Dannebrog, Haddy Enoch, died on Monday, November 16, at the age of 78. Haddy Enoch, an ECA member of the first hour, has always put a lot of energy into the ECA’s activities. The circus world mourns for him and our condolences go to his family! Read more >> | |
Why ECA? Circus is Culture The classical circus is known through out the world as a variety of acts presented in a central ring involving artistic displays, acrobatics, clowns, music, animals, and mind-boggling feats of strength, beauty and daring. The modern European circus can be traced to London around 1770. Today more than 1,000 circuses thrive across Europe. Many are owned or managed by and feature talented descendants of the original great circus families. The European Circus Association (ECA) was established to promote circus arts and culture, thereby protecting this important part of our shared heritage. |
ECA offers proposed model regulation for the care, transport and presentation of animals in the circus ECA Supports the Establishment of Good Regulations The European Circus Association (ECA) strongly supports the establishment of appropriate regulations to ensure the welfare of all animals under human care. Concerning animals in circuses, there is no legal basis for European Community wide legislation. ECA therefore recommends that countries that have not already done so enact circus-specific legislation at the national level. Read more >>
Complete model regulations you can find in the members documents (Members only, login required) |
ECA Circus Animal Fund
The European Circus Association (ECA) has created a Circus Animal Fund. With contributions made to the Fund, ECA will be able to undertake more work to protect the rights of circuses and trainers to continue to present animals as part of the classical circus. The ECA Board of Directors guarantees that contributions to the Fund will be used exclusively for this purpose. Every year, ECA produces a new collectible pin to encourage support for the Fund. The ECA pin 2009 features a camel, an animal often seen in the circus ring. ECA’s first collectible pin (2008) representing a tiger is also still available. For non-ECA members the pin costs € 5, - a piece. Due to the bank and postage costs, at least five pins must be ordered. Send your pin order or contribution for the ECA animal fund to: European Circus Association. De Lagune 24, 3823 TS Amersfoort – Netherlands. Mention ECA Circus Animal Fund. ING Bank (INGBNL2A) Spoorlaan 420, 5038 CG TILBURG Netherlands IBAN-number: NL28 INGB 0666 5766 29 BIC-number: INGBNL2A | |
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